Daily Links Jun 11

Now educating women might be a surprising solution to climate change, it is not a surprising solution to so many other issues facing the globe. Try ending poverty and improving health, just for starters.

Amnesty has awarded Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement a human rights award. The movement has seen tens of thousands of students spend Fridays demanding climate action.

For many people, climate change feels like a distant threat — something that happens far away, or far off in the future. Scientists and climate communicators often think that if everyone saw the devastating impacts of climate change, we’d all be more likely to accept it as real, and that accepting climate science is essential to taking action against it. A new study, published this month in Regional Environmental Change, challenges the latter part of this assumption.

Melbourne has never had a transport construction boom such as this. Toll roads, underground rail lines, level crossing removals, railway stations, all built at a pace that would have been unimaginable a few years ago. But it isn’t coming cheap.

Authorities are fed up with a Taiwanese shipping company’s slow response to salvaging containers it lost at sea near Newcastle one year ago, with one commercial fisherman saying he is still catching up to 20 push bikes in nets.

Bankruptcy proceedings have begun in Sydney against a solicitor who owes part of $34 million after a British based company persuaded investors to plough their savings into reforestation in Australia and the Amazon and rice farm harvests.

The ACT’s status as Australia’s most geographically compact, and yet one of the nation’s best educated and affluent, jurisdictions means we are uniquely situated to explore progressive measures that would be hard to sell elsewhere.

The Court of Appeal decision has implications for half of all the land in southeast Queensland.

In a case affecting tens of millions of hectares, developers have moved to take their fight over which level of government gets the final say over land clearing in Queensland to Australia’s highest court.

Groundwater experts from around Australia have repeated calls for further investigations into the potential effects on heritage groundwater reserves in central Queensland if the giant Adani Carmichael coalmine gets the final regulatory go-ahead this week

The Queensland Labor Government has been the leader of the anti-Adani cheer squad, prepared to invent legislative obstacles to appease their socialist mates. May 18 changed everything. To suggest otherwise is fanciful, and frankly, an insult to our intelligence.

A study by the Ministry of Health shows that the number of deaths classified as resulting from air pollution has increased 14 percent in ten years. There were 38,782 deaths in 2006 and 44,228 in 2016, according to the study “Saúde Brasil 2018”, released this week on World Environment Day.

For the first time, scientists have applied a magnetic field that directly enhanced the production of hydrogen via water splitting. The results have been published in Nature Energy. The simplicity of the discovery opens opportunities for implementing magnetic enhancement in water splitting, bringing the hydrogen-based economy closer.

A research group led by Professor WANG Feng at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed a method to produce diesel fuel and hydrogen by exploiting light energy (solar energy or artificial light energy) and biomass-derived feedstocks.

There’s no doubt that climate change is affecting ecosystems as well as the lifestyles of plants and animals around the globe. As temperatures rise, so do the complexity of the issues. Scientists, both in the United States and around the world, are actively pursuing mitigation solutions while providing governments with the understanding of natural hazards to help stem the effects of climate change.